EDIT: Outdated as of Patch 8.11, please be aware of this before you check out the builds. I will try to update when we discover all viable builds for Graves, but it may be a while. Also since jungle changes finally came through and we learned more about it I can work on other parts of the guide.

Click the link above to learn about how to build items on Graves! A quick tip before you start looking there: click on the links on the top right to instantly go to one of the sections you want to go to. For example if you click on Lethality Graves it will instantly take you to lethality Graves builds if you prefer to do this instead of scrolling!

Tell me what you guys think about it, and if you like the way I made this page for Graves builds. This is part of the full guide I am working on! If you want to see all the topics I'm working on for the guide check here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GravesMains/wiki/index but for now only the builds is done.

Yes, Graves is good right now! One of the best junglers for consistency, and with few bad matchups.

Yes, Stormrazor (SR) is a good item on Graves, especially if against squishies or if you want to snowball. Tho if you get to true 6 items, this is probably the first item you should replace.

Yes, you can build SR and PD together. Just don't buy Zerkers too if you do this.

No there is no one size fits all build. One of the best things about Graves is his itemization flexibility. He can build to fit any situation! After buying your Warrior, pick from SR, BC, PD, DD, GA, Maw, LDR, Mortal Reminder, Youmuus, Duskblade, BORK, BT, IE, and RFC depending on what you need. If against squishies, think about the lethality items and SR. Need some survivability, look into BC, PD, DD, GA, BT, and Maw! Need to penetrate some armor, or enemy has lots of healing, look into a LW item! Bork is situational into hp stackers, and RFC is an alternative to PD if you are against long range champs you have trouble getting in on.

No, lane Graves isn't good, but if you enjoy playing it then go for it!

Yes, you can run PTA/DH/Fleet if you want! If you're playing at a high level, there can be reason for each, but for most of you just try them all out and see what feels best for you! But in general, Fleet is for more mobility and repositioning within fights, PTA is better damage for fights where you can proc it like against fighters/tanks/people that can't outkite you, and DH is a pubstomp rune that can be good against squishies.

If there are any other common questions you'd like to be answered, feel free to leave them below. I'm here all week :)

So in an attempt to make my presence more known on the map, I decided to go Mobis on graves.

And when I say that I actually mean spend my first 900 gold on mobis no exceptions, and I have actually had pretty good success with it. Mobis allow me to keep moving around the map, farm better, set up ganks a lot better, and once laning phase is over, I switch them out for whatever boots I actually need.

I think you all should try it, or at the very least tell me your thoughts about it.

In the most recent Beyond the Rift episode featuring Voyboy, Imaqtpie, scarra and Voyboy was asked which champion rework they would undo, and most of them agreed on undoing graves (along with galio and yorick). Ive only known the graves we have now, so how was graves before the rework, and do you agree with undoing the rework?

I am sadly not a real Graves main, as I tried him, his mechanics were always a bit clunky, so I managed to only get like 30k mastery points, but this may change...

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Story: since seaons is ended, I played World od Tanks. Came to an idea to build a ranged tank, in League of Legends, so that he works like a real tank. With Graves Q and R - and me being jungle main, it kinda was an obvious choice. Now, this happened:

As I said, I am not even okayish with his mechanics... I was veeeery surprised how this worked. I know he is strong in general, but... WTF?

Is this a thing? I know it is normal, but enemy team had 3 gold+ players and they were not trolling at all.

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I ask because like I said, my mechanics on him are still clunky and usually, I have problems with people running away from me, or that I was dying to Zeds way too fast, now, with such HP pool and armor from Radnunins (which Id replace now with dmp or... RL, but that sounds even more troll?), plus slow on them, when they tried to collapse on me was leaving them exposed to dmg from my team...

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So yeah, lower dmg, than standard builds, no tank, so I got away without BC and CDRs, but also way more forgiving, slowing people, plus, baiting people into jumping on me, but not being able to 1shot me, with my sick amounts of armor...

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Is this troll build, that worked in clown fiesta normal game (which I think it is, but the amount of kills I got and situations, that I have not died were just...) , or I can try to build something like this in ranked and there are people, who build him in a similiar manner?

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Please do not flame, I am also confused. If you can however tell me, what I need to change here to get an acceptable, forgiving build for noob Graves player would be great! Thanks in advance!